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Author:   Bronwyn Davies (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.710kg
ISBN:  

9780415956536

ISBN 10:   0415956536
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   03 August 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Conversation with Judith Butler 1 1. An Account of Oneself Judith Butler. Forgiving, Given Over, Given Away: Response to Judith Butler’s Presentation Fiona Jenkins 2. Passionately Attached: Academic Subjects of Desire Eva Bendix Petersen. Found/Wanting and Becoming/Undone: A Response to Eva Bendix Petersen Sheridan Linnell. Conversation with Judith Butler 2 3. Sissy Boy Melancholy and the Educational Possibilities of Incoherence David McInnes. A Dialogue on ‘Becoming Sissy’ Cristyn Davies. Conversation with Judith Butler 3 4. Words That Matter: Reading the Performativity of Humanity through Butler and Blanchot Linnell Secomb. Sustaining Language/Existing Threats: Resistance and Rhetoric in Australian Refugee Discourses Susanne Gannon and Sue Saltmarsh. Conversation with Judith Butler 4 5. 'Bringing the Elsewhere Home': Drag-Kids and Queer Belongings Affrica Taylor. Dressing Up and Growing Up: Rehearsals on the Threshold of Intelligibility Jonathan Bollen. Conversation with Judith Butler 5

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Bronwyn Davies is Professor of Education at the University of Western Sydney. Her current work involves a critique of neoliberalism as it impacts on subjectivities at work. She is also researching pedagogies of place and transgressive research methodologies. Her most recent book with Susanne Gannon, Doing Collective Biography, is published by Open University Press (2006).

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